@MKBHD Imagine thinking your wallpaper app is deserving of a subscription model when I can own wallpaper engine forever with one $6 payment. Delusional.
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works, huh?
Can't stop thinking about how Starbucks can afford to give its new CEO $113 million & a private jet, a $10.6 million golden parachute to its departing CEO & a $60 million golden parachute to the CEO who left in 2022, but still can't sign a first contract with its union workers.
Disney will waive arbitration in its wrongful death suit
They initially sought to dismiss the case by citing the widower’s Disney+ subscription — It will now proceed in court
“At Disney, we strive to put humanity above all other considerations"
In 75% of US industries, fewer companies control more of the business than 20 years ago.
Minimal competition (thanks to mergers like this one) means maximized price-gouging.
Corporate monopolies get rich, and we pay the tab at the grocery store.
Just four companies in the U.S. control:
85% of beef processing
80% of corn seed distribution
77% of fertilizer production
69% of grocery sales
Wondering why food prices are so high?
Minimal competition means maximized price-gouging.
@Bruzewane@VerusMk7@UppercaseCCC Usually leaks come from a random or anonymous source. Not the journalist being invited via code and asked to please keep everything off the record. You know this thing called integrity?
@dennyleonard@etlifestyle_web@Whotfismick People who own a business don't know how easy they have it compared to owners that have 4-5 businesses. Do you see how dumb that makes you sound?